Morrell v. Precise Engineering, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 12 district · 20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently July 2019 · most notably Phinney v. Morgan (1995), Cigna Insurance Company As Subrogee of Waltham Racquet Club Inc v. Oy Saunatec Ltd Helo Factories Ltd Saunatec Plc (2001)
3 federal appellate · 12 district · 20 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Back v. Wickes Corp. · Smith v. Ariens Co. · Uloth v. City Tank Corp. · Colter v. Barber-Greene Co. · O'Brien v. Analog Devices, Inc.
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“because a warning will not reduce the likelihood of injury.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“fully aware of the risks posed by the product.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.